Coulson v. Scott
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. W. W. Haralson. Ejectment by James L. Coulson and others against Felix Scott and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal. The chain of title relied on will be found stated in a former report of this case in 156 Ala. 450, 47 South. 60. Upon this trial the facts were the same, with the additional facts set out in the opinion.
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. W. W. Haralson. Ejectment by James L. Coulson and others against Felix Scott and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal. The chain of title relied on will be found stated in a former report of this case in 156 Ala. 450, 47 South. 60. Upon this trial the facts were the same, with the additional facts set out in the opinion. The following was the oral part of the charge excepted to: “I charge you, gentlemen of the jury, that the plaintiffs by their deed and evidence make out a prima facie case, and are entitled to recover the…
1Opinion of the Court
ANDEESON, J. —
When this case was here on former appeal (156 Ala. 450, 47 South. 60), Ave held that the title was prima facie in the plaintiffs as heirs of Jerusha Gullatt, who held under a deed from Isaac Clark, of date 1838. We also held that the defendants did not trace their title beyond the Bank of Decatur, that it showed no title from Isaac Clark to said bank superior to the deed from the said Clark to his daughter Jerusha Gullatt. Upon the next trial, the one from *610which this appeal is taken, there was evidence tending to show that the deed from Clark to his daughter, while placed on…
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